A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in … background and county of residence in early childhood to adult health and economic outcomes. The identification comes from …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

Large literatures document positive effects of WIC on birth outcomes, and separately connect health at birth and future … health conditions and of grade repetition. These findings demonstrate that a “WIC start” results in persistent improvements …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …

significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …

We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions using state …-year variation in public health insurance expansions that targeted low-income pregnant women and children. We use restricted use … generation's health outcomes at birth. We find robust evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations …

This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively … migration effect among early-cohort females on physical health. We find no evidence of migration-health effects for the later … effects and find that there is a significant and substantial improvement in physical and mental health for a fraction of …